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With the Might of Angels

Author: Andrea Davis Pinkey


Students Reading This Book:

Skylar, Paige, Aaliyah, Emma, Taylor, Lexi

Characters:

Dawn/Dawnie,Daddy, Mama, Goober, Yolanda, Roger

Inferences:

Paige- Dawnie is probaly going to go to the white school, because it was her dream to go to the white school.

Taylor-Dawnie and Yolanda will probaly get caught in the white baseball field, because her hiding place isn't really elaberiate.

Emma-That Dawn is going to write her own speech, because M r.Calhoun said to practice at home and he never gave her a speech.

Skylar-I think that Dawnie will get caught by her dad going into the white school, because Dawnie really wanted to go to the white school to play baseball.

Lexi- Since Dawnie wants to go to the white school, when her parents/nobody are home Dawnie will go to the white school.

Aaliyah- I think that Dawnie is going to get caught when she's at the white school.


New learning:

Aaliyah- dawns dad is trying to compromise Because of her dress

Lexi- that dawn is scared to say her speech Because she does't like taking in front of her family/people or she has stage fright.

Emma-dawnie gets her love of reading from her father.

paige- dawn loves playing baseball with her dad.because she always plays in the backyard play

sky-father has styling skills

taylor- nothing will stop dawn from being a doctor because that's her dream


Wonder questions:

Lexi/Aaliyah: I wonder if roger is going to be accepted into Prettyman because he is one of the smartest kids in the school.

Skylar: Why didn't the people that worked at Woolworth's food counter let the colored people have their own eating section?

Taylor: since New York is not a slave state, why wouldn't they have colored doctors in other state?

Paige: why can't African Americans have fun at enjoyable places?

Emma: Is dawn going to write her own speech? Answer: Yes

New Learning:



Lexi/Aaliyah: Yolanda and Roger are staying at Bethune.

Skylar: Since Yolanda and Roger are staying at Bethune, Dawnie is staying by there side!!!!

Taylor: Dawnie is stuck between Bethune and Prettyman

Paige: Dawnie has made her decision and is going to Prettyman.

Emma: many people protested outside of prettyman about dawn going to Prettyman.



Wonder questions/infrences:

Emma: how many children were taken out of school? infrence: many children becuase the school day ended early.

Lexi: I wonder if dawnie's dad is going to get mad that he is going to get split up with his company. Infrence: he is going to get split up from his company.

Paige: I wonder if dawnie is going to make a white friend. Infrence: yes

Skylar: I wonder if dawn is going to stay at prettyman. Infrence: yes she will stay

Aalilyah; I wonder why dawnie wont speak up? she'll never speak up becuase shes the only africain americain...



New Learning:

Aaliyah/Lexi: D's teachers don't like her

Emma:dawns dad got fired because costomers didnt like dawn going to Prettyman and integrating that school.

Skylar: Dawn gets teased a lot at Prettyman because she is a Negro.

Paige: Dawnie gets the worst job at Prettyman, she has to clean the white board every day and she has to miss recess.

Taylor:Dawn doesn't get a fair job because she misses her favorite part of the day....... recess!;)

Thinking:

Emma:I feel really bad for the colored people back then because of how they were treated!

Lexi: I think that Dawnie's mom is going to find her journal about going close to Ivoryton.

Aaliyah: I think her mom is going to find Dawn's journal and she's going to yell at her.\

Paige: I think Dawnie is going to want to go back to Bethune.

Sky: I think that Goober is going to get scared and tell his mom what happened.

Taylor: I am very sad how they treat colored people.


New Learning:

Lexi/Aaliyah: They are boycotting dairy products because of Dawnie going to Prettyman.

Skylar: Dawn seems mad about Mrs. Elmer.

Emma: Dawn thought she had to bring her own frog to dissect but it is provided.

Taylor: Dawnie has a very personal and mean Christmas list.

Paige: I never knew that martin Luther king was a preacher

Wonder ?'s

Skylar: Why were the girls in the locker being so mean! And in the locker room.... that's gross!!!!!:

Lexi: why did white people make make fun of other white people because of their religon.

Emma: i wonder when Curtis Johnson will get a new job?

Paige: will she raise the most money for the new bell? will she become the new bell ringer?

Taylor: who wrote that awful letter in the newspaper?

Aaliyah:why do they keep saying milk bath?


Thinking:

Lexi: I think that Dawnie's dad should take his job back because he needs the money.

Emma: I'm so glad dawn and Gertie are best friends and i like how they made a snowlady

Paige: i think dawn will become the new bell ringer.

Taylor: i think waddles is the next raccoon to take a milk bath

Skylar: The person who drowned the raccoon and put it's carcus in the milk carton, was a cruel person !:(

Aaliyah: I wouldn't take Curtis's job back either

Summary:

Dawnie was an ordinary colored kid that lived in Hadley, Virginia. When her life got flipped turned upside down. Then she had enough credits to go to a white school, and from there her life was miserable until she found a friend that acted like Dawnie was a white person. She is Jewish.